Before you can copy text, you need to be able to highlight it.
There are several ways to do this.

1. Move your mouse to the beginning of your text, hold down the
left mouse button and slowly move the mouse to the end of the
text. When the text you want to use is highlighted, release the
mouse button.

2. With your mouse, click once at the beginning of your text.
Hold down the "Shift" key on your keyboard, and click once at
the end of the text. Everything between the first click and the
second will be highlighted.

3. Using the arrow keys move the cursor to the beginning of your
text, hold down the shift key while using the arrow keys to move
to the end of your text. Now that you have had a week to
practice highlighting, we will move on to copy and paste.

When you copy something, you place it in a part of Windows
memory called the clipboard.

To do this, you first highlight your text, and then click on
"Edit" and "Copy". Even though you can't see any changes, you
will now have your text on the clipboard.

To paste, you simply click where you want the text to go and
click "Edit" and "Paste".

Lets say that you want to send just this tip in an e-mail to
your mother. First, you would highlight the tip, then click
"Edit" and "Copy". Next, you open a new e-mail and address it to
your mom. Now click in the body of the e-mail where you want the
tip to go, and click "Edit" and "Paste".

Your tip is now in the new e-mail

Now, I want to show you another way to do the same thing.

Remember that when you copy something, you place it in a part of
Windows memory called the clipboard.

An even easier way to do this, is to first highlight your text,
and then using your keyboard, press Ctrl + C.

This is the same as "Edit" and "Copy" and you will now have your
text on the clipboard.

To paste, you simply click where you want the text to go and
press Ctrl + V.

Not only is it faster and easier to use the keyboard shortcuts,
but it works in places where there is no "Edit" menu available.
If you can highlight the text, you can usually copy it.